Tel Aviv-based designer Noa Raviv used classical Greek sculptures as the basis for her graduation collection from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Entitled ‘Hard Copy’, the collection is made by loading 3-D rendering software with what she calls “impossible commands” – crazy requests that should break the software, forcing it to emit shapes that have no grounds in our physical world.

“I have deliberately created deformed objects that were created by a command that the software is not able to execute. These objects cannot be printed, nor produced in reality. They exist only in the virtual space.” – Noa Raviv

Academically and philosophically speaking, her results only exist in the virtual space, but in practice Raviv has teamed up with 3-D printing company Stratasys to bring some of her creations to light, incorporating the plastic print-outs with pleated fabric, tulle, and silk organza. She then places these onto models as incredible garments.

“One of the things that fascinated me while working on the collection was the challenge of reproducing an error, or a non-existing element, and making it something that has form and shape and can be wearable.” – Noa Raviv

Although her work is set in the technological era made possible in the 21st century, the inspiration is drawn from an unlikely place: the aesthetics of antiquity: “The silhouettes were influenced by classical sculptures which are rarely found unbroken, thus the shapes and patterns of the collection are mostly non-symmetrical and have a sort of distorted look.” – Noa Raviv